I am glad you enjoyed Brock and I hope your readers do as well. Below is the original post that contains pertinent background information regarding Tuscaloosa, Patton, and Moundville. Kindest regards, Jeffery; Interesting to say the least. I have seen pictures of these petroglyphs before and they and the legends pertaining to them are fascinating. Native art, and carvings are a hobby of mine. Many carvings are very similar as are the legends associated with them. Early natives liked to travel, trade, and converse among other things. That would help explain some of the similarities. After reading the comments of the article it brought to mind an interesting story that took place in Moundville, Alabama in 1938 during a CCC dig. Moundville Archaeological State Park is very spellbinding place in it's own right just south of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The article pertaining to the rock references TsulKalu the Cherokee mythic giant god (notice the similarity to the adjacent modern day city just ten miles north of Moundville called Tuscaloosa). The city of Tuscaloosa was named after chief Tuskaloosa (aka Tuskalusa, Tastaluca, Tuskaluza) who was reported by members of DeSoto's expedition to be over seven feet tall! Moundville was the second largest mound complex in North America and a hub for government and religion among the natives in that region. For nearly five hundred years it was a thriving city. It still begs for questions to be answered, but one of the strangest has archaeologist John Patton Jr. at it's roots. Late in life Patton revealed that he had found a strange creatures that was "not of this earth" in one of the mounds. Also, during this time two of his co-workers were found dead and one of the dying men had scribbled above his body "I have found the Genesis". Patton risked all to tell his story but in the end was discredited by his peers. Still, he stood by his story and wrote a book about his discoveries dying in obscurity. In 2010 his grandson made a small independent film entitled "A Genesis Found". Here is a link to YouTube video about the story. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWECqgae_Ro
I am glad you enjoyed Brock and I hope your readers do as well. Below is the original post that contains pertinent background information regarding Tuscaloosa, Patton, and Moundville. Kindest regards, Jeffery;
ReplyDeleteInteresting to say the least. I have seen pictures of these petroglyphs before and they and the legends pertaining to them are fascinating. Native art, and carvings are a hobby of mine. Many carvings are very similar as are the legends associated with them. Early natives liked to travel, trade, and converse among other things. That would help explain some of the similarities. After reading the comments of the article it brought to mind an interesting story that took place in Moundville, Alabama in 1938 during a CCC dig. Moundville Archaeological State Park is very spellbinding place in it's own right just south of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The article pertaining to the rock references TsulKalu the Cherokee mythic giant god (notice the similarity to the adjacent modern day city just ten miles north of Moundville called Tuscaloosa). The city of Tuscaloosa was named after chief Tuskaloosa (aka Tuskalusa, Tastaluca, Tuskaluza) who was reported by members of DeSoto's expedition to be over seven feet tall! Moundville was the second largest mound complex in North America and a hub for government and religion among the natives in that region. For nearly five hundred years it was a thriving city. It still begs for questions to be answered, but one of the strangest has archaeologist John Patton Jr. at it's roots. Late in life Patton revealed that he had found a strange creatures that was "not of this earth" in one of the mounds. Also, during this time two of his co-workers were found dead and one of the dying men had scribbled above his body "I have found the Genesis". Patton risked all to tell his story but in the end was discredited by his peers. Still, he stood by his story and wrote a book about his discoveries dying in obscurity. In 2010 his grandson made a small independent film entitled "A Genesis Found". Here is a link to YouTube video about the story. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWECqgae_Ro
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